Comparison of Alternative Engine Architectures for Next Generation Supersonic Aircraft
The present paper illustrates the design space exploration of a supersonic mixed-flow turbofan engine for civil applications. The aircraft platform selected is a 10-passenger business jet, cruising at Mach 1.6. To overcome noise limitations at take-off, an alternative engine architecture with additi...
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| description | The present paper illustrates the design space exploration of a supersonic mixed-flow turbofan engine for civil applications. The aircraft platform selected is a 10-passenger business jet, cruising at Mach 1.6. To overcome noise limitations at take-off, an alternative engine architecture with additional exhaust nozzle variability, to overcome the take-off noise limit, is proposed. The fully variable area nozzle configuration allows for an overall 15% weight reduction against a partially variable area nozzle architecture. In terms of overall aircraft mission fuel burn, it shows an 8% mission fuel burn reduction against the partially variable area nozzle architecture, with a final fuel efficiency of 11.4 pax-mile/us gallon. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c2110aa6db724779aadee389693ce6df2025-08-20T03:27:14ZengMDPI AGEngineering Proceedings2673-45912025-05-0190111510.3390/engproc2025090115Comparison of Alternative Engine Architectures for Next Generation Supersonic AircraftDario Del Gatto0Stylianos Adamidis1Christos Mourouzidis2Stephen Brown3Centre for Propulsion and Thermal Power Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Bedfordshire MK43 0AL, UKCentre for Propulsion and Thermal Power Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Bedfordshire MK43 0AL, UKCentre for Propulsion and Thermal Power Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Bedfordshire MK43 0AL, UKCentre for Propulsion and Thermal Power Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Bedfordshire MK43 0AL, UKThe present paper illustrates the design space exploration of a supersonic mixed-flow turbofan engine for civil applications. The aircraft platform selected is a 10-passenger business jet, cruising at Mach 1.6. To overcome noise limitations at take-off, an alternative engine architecture with additional exhaust nozzle variability, to overcome the take-off noise limit, is proposed. The fully variable area nozzle configuration allows for an overall 15% weight reduction against a partially variable area nozzle architecture. In terms of overall aircraft mission fuel burn, it shows an 8% mission fuel burn reduction against the partially variable area nozzle architecture, with a final fuel efficiency of 11.4 pax-mile/us gallon.https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4591/90/1/115supersonic transport aircraftturbofan enginevariable area nozzlesnoise |
| spellingShingle | Dario Del Gatto Stylianos Adamidis Christos Mourouzidis Stephen Brown Comparison of Alternative Engine Architectures for Next Generation Supersonic Aircraft Engineering Proceedings supersonic transport aircraft turbofan engine variable area nozzles noise |
| title | Comparison of Alternative Engine Architectures for Next Generation Supersonic Aircraft |
| title_full | Comparison of Alternative Engine Architectures for Next Generation Supersonic Aircraft |
| title_fullStr | Comparison of Alternative Engine Architectures for Next Generation Supersonic Aircraft |
| title_full_unstemmed | Comparison of Alternative Engine Architectures for Next Generation Supersonic Aircraft |
| title_short | Comparison of Alternative Engine Architectures for Next Generation Supersonic Aircraft |
| title_sort | comparison of alternative engine architectures for next generation supersonic aircraft |
| topic | supersonic transport aircraft turbofan engine variable area nozzles noise |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2673-4591/90/1/115 |
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